# List of ambassadors of the United States to Serbia

This is a list of ambassadors of the United States to Serbia.
Some parts of today's Serbia had been under the occupation of the Ottoman Empire (from 1459 until 1804) while other parts were occupied by Habsburg monarchy (1526–1804), Austrian Empire (1804–1867), and Austria-Hungary (1867–1918). Upon regaining its independence (partial in 1804 and full in 1878), the Serbian state strengthened and expanded and was in 1918 the driving force behind the creation of Yugoslavia (the land of South Slavs, a multi-ethnic state that over the following seven decades experienced various models of governance). In 1992 Yugoslavia disintegrated, although two of its constituent units - Serbia and Montenegro - continued in the same federal state under the same name Yugoslavia until 2003, when they re-organized into Serbia and Montenegro. After the Montenegrin independence referendum in May 2006, Serbia, as the only remaining unit in the federation, restored its independence on 5 June 2006.
The United States established diplomatic relations with Serbia on November 10, 1882 when Eugene Schuyler was appointed resident U.S. Ambassador to Serbia, Romania and Greece, in Athens.
Since July 17, 1919, U.S. diplomatic missions were based in Yugoslavia and since May 1992 after the breakup of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Serbia – United States relations cooled off, were severed after the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. The U.S. Embassy formally reopened in Belgrade in May 2001.
The United States Embassy in Serbia is located in Belgrade.

## Ambassadors

| Portrait | Name | Title | Appointed | Presented credentials | Terminated mission | Notes |
| | Eugene Schuyler – Career FSO | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | November 10, 1882 | | September 19, 1884 | Resident in Athens |
| | Walker Fearn – Career FSO | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | September 19, 1884 | September 28, 1885 | October 24, 1889 | Resident in Athens |
| | A. Loudon Snowden – Career FSO | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | October 24, 1889 | November 28, 1889 | August 25, 1892 | Resident in Athens |
| | Eben Alexander – Career FSO | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | August 25, 1892 | June 29, 1894 | August 10, 1897 | Resident in Athens |
| | William Woodville Rockhill – Career FSO | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | August 10, 1897 | May 7, 1898 | April 27, 1899 | Resident in Athens |
| | Arthur S. Hardy – Career FSO | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | April 27, 1899 | June 24, 1900 | March 2, 1901 | Resident in Athens |
| | Charles S. Francis – Career FSO | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | March 2, 1901 | May 13, 1901 | December 24, 1902 | Resident in Athens |
| | John Brinkerhoff Jackson – Career FSO | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | December 24, 1902 | October 13, 1902 | July 13, 1905 | Resident in Athens |
| | John W. Riddle – Career FSO | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | July 13, 1905 | May 7, 1906 | January 23, 1907 | Resident in Bucharest |
| | Horace G. Knowles – Career FSO | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | January 23, 1907 | January 16, 1907 | February 4, 1909 | Resident in Bucharest |
| | John R. Carter – Career FSO | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | February 4, 1909 | May 3, 1910 | October 27, 1911 | Resident in Bucharest |
| | John Brinkerhoff Jackson – Career FSO | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | October 27, 1911 | January 16, 1912 | October 15, 1913 | Resident in Bucharest |
| | Charles J. Vopicka – Career FSO | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | October 15, 1913 | December 15, 1913 | December 17, 1918 | Resident in Bucharest |
| For U.S. Ambassadors between 1918 and 1992, please see United States Ambassador to Yugoslavia |||||||
| | Robert Rackmales | Chargés d'affaires ad interim | May 1992 | N/A | July 1993 | The United States announced on May 21, 1992, that it would not recognize the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, comprising the republics of Serbia and Montenegro, as the successor to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. |
| | Rudolf V. Perina | Chargés d'affaires ad interim | July 1993 | N/A | February 1996 | |
| | Lawrence Butler | Chargés d'affaires ad interim | February 1996 | N/A | August 1996 | |
| | Richard M. Miles | Chargés d'affaires ad interim | August 1996 | N/A | March 1999 | The embassy was closed March 23, 1999. Miles and the last Embassy personnel left March 24, and NATO armed forces began military action against Serbia-Montenegro that evening. |
| | William Dale Montgomery – Career FSO | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | January 4, 2002 | January 4, 2002 | February 29, 2004 | Montgomery served as Chargés d'affaires ad interim from 2000 to 2002 The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia became Serbia-Montenegro in 2003 |
| | Michael C. Polt – Career FSO | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | February 29, 2004 | May 21, 2004 | August 3, 2007 | |
| | Cameron Munter – Career FSO | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 26, 2007 | August 15, 2007 | January 19, 2010 | |
| | Mary Burce Warlick – Career FSO | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | December 24, 2009 | January 28, 2010 | September 17, 2012 | |
| | Michael David Kirby – Career FSO | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 3, 2012 | September 19, 2012 | January 29, 2016 | |
| | Kyle Randolph Scott – Career FSO | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | September 15, 2015 | February 5, 2016 | September 27, 2019 | |
| | Anthony Francis Godfrey – Career FSO | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | September 30, 2019 | October 24, 2019 | February 12, 2022 | |
| | Christopher Robert Hill – Career FSO | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | March 11, 2022 | March 31, 2022 | January 10, 2025 | |